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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1866 edition. Excerpt: ...on summer's crown They deserved to be, --On her beauty shining down, Stars above her sea. Interpraising, child to child, All the summer flowers, --Dancing, wreathed with roses wild, In the summer bowers, --Such had been their bliss before, Earthly summers seven, Spring their spirits upward bore For the eighth in heaven. Planted on their little graves, Two small roses stood. Mournful, as the wind that waves Through the piny wood. There they mourned the summer through, Each its darling boy, Till the autumn showed its hue--Gay, gold shroud of joy, --Gorgeous hatchment, festive pall, With the smile of God, Saying to the mourners all, "Life is from the sod." Listening in their rosy way, --Clear the voice to them; Promptly on each slender spray, Grew a tiny gem, Summer lingered till the. bloomed Roses white and red--Voices from the dear entombed--Tenderly they said, "See our roses, Mother dear, "See our roses gay, "Not with sadness or with fear, "Do they go their way. "Doffing leaflets with a smile "They lie down and die, --"Resting so a little while--"Blooming by and by. "Dying, Mother, is not death, "Dying is a Dieu. "Roses breathe a sweeter breath, "Come from God anew." Lines written Dec. 9 1860, the birth-day of Eddy and Bitty The great sky is as lovely and blue As when first the sun shone through. The great sun is as bright and as new, As when it kindled that lovely hue. But the sunny, sunny boys, The sunshine of our joys, On this their natal day--Oh, why are they away? The great God who works through the sun, In all the years the world has run, In all the things that he has done, Of brighter things or better has made none, But the sunny, sunny boys, The sunshine of our joys, On...show more